Example sentences of "look as [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ma and Father shake hands with everyone and look as if they are having a wonderful time . |
| 2 | Ms Khudiakova herself may , from time to time during the week of the show , model some of the 20 outfits — a red silk skirt patterned with the heads of workers who look as if they are marching when you walk in it , a red evening dress decorated with a swath of flowers reminiscent of the relief on a pavilion in Moscow 's Stalin-era Exhibition of Economic Achievements . |
| 3 | I look as if I 've made an about-turn but in terms of simple logistics it 's getting itself out of all proportion . ’ |
| 4 | Because the typification is very inclusive , covering known criminals and people who look as if they might be , it gets its meaning partly from practical experience of people who typically commit crime in Easton , but also from prejudices that derive from middleclass notions of respectability . |
| 5 | They lean back until they look as if they are about to fall over , so that they can look around them , and perhaps check who 's behind their back . |
| 6 | Favourites look as if they will have a good run at Catterick with Royal Greek , Black Spur , James Joy and Pyjamas in particular . |
| 7 | Trade negotiations always look as if they were about to break down just before they succeed . |
| 8 | They look as if I were committing an indecency . |
| 9 | ‘ They sometimes look as if they 've fallen off the back of a lorry . ’ |
| 10 | Mature evergreen trees , such as Ilex crenata , have been trained and clipped into formal shapes which look as if a green cloud is floating on each branch . |
| 11 | ‘ You look as if you do when you 're playing . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You look as if you can not spell . |
| 13 | But as one commentator has remarked , ‘ the trouble is some of these directives look as if they may take until the 21st century to be adopted let alone implemented ’ . |
| 14 | Living things do not disobey these physical laws — but they look as if they do . |
| 15 | Most Land Rover body panels will fit if they look as if they will fit . |
| 16 | ‘ They look as if new plant has been acquired — two grinding machines , a mixer and a rolling machine . ’ |
| 17 | I think Dufy is quite wrong ; John Piper is more the type , his peculiar banks and cliffs which have no vegetation on them whatsoever yet look as if they are going to have tiny green shoots peeping out at any minute . |
| 18 | ‘ You look as if you 've only just been let out on parole ! ’ |
| 19 | And then they surrounded Milward 's house and pillaged and put to the sword Milward and other members of the Wimbledon Society who simply did not understand that — ‘ You look as if you 're going to have a thrombie ! ’ said a voice behind him . |
| 20 | The staff say you always look as if you 've been sleeping in haystacks these days . |
| 21 | ‘ My word , ’ said the sergeant , gazing at her blackened face and hands and torn frock , ‘ you look as if you 've been climbing trees . ’ |
| 22 | The folds look as if they are pushing Helmsdale right into the sea ; as though the river in spate had collected all the houses it could uproot inland and deposited them at the river mouth with just enough of a toehold to keep them there . |
| 23 | The mules look as if they were turned out by machine . ’ |
| 24 | We all gladly agree that today most people of forty — or even fifty for that matter — look as if they are still in their thirties . |
| 25 | Most of the flowerbeds that look as if they 've been there forever were in fact made after Peter 's death . |
| 26 | He said you gave marvellous picnics — and you look as if you would ! ’ |
| 27 | And there 's the desperate search to find any boyfriend as quickly as possible , so that you look as if you 're all right and not alone . ’ |
| 28 | Or look as if they could . ’ |
| 29 | The graphics look as if they 've been ported directly across from a Spectrum . |
| 30 | LEE WEARS a shiny nylon jacket that 's on loan from the Sir Alf Ramsey estate , and cheesy sports pants that look as if they could walk home on their own . |